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    Bullying can take many forms, including direct physical or verbal bullying, indirect relationship bullying or cyberbullying using technology. It negatively impacts victims' feelings and well-being. While anyone can bully or be bullied, bullies often do it to feel powerful or cause harm, and targets are sometimes singled out for perceived differences or weaknesses. Schools and parents should educate youth about consequences, monitor technology use, and empower victims to get help and stand up to bullying. Comprehensive anti-bullying programs aim to change social norms, prevent future incidents, and discourage bullying behaviors.

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    Bullying can take many forms, including direct physical or verbal bullying, indirect relationship bullying or cyberbullying using technology. It negatively impacts victims' feelings and well-being. While anyone can bully or be bullied, bullies often do it to feel powerful or cause harm, and targets are sometimes singled out for perceived differences or weaknesses. Schools and parents should educate youth about consequences, monitor technology use, and empower victims to get help and stand up to bullying. Comprehensive anti-bullying programs aim to change social norms, prevent future incidents, and discourage bullying behaviors.

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    Bullying can take many forms, including direct physical or verbal bullying, indirect relationship bullying or cyberbullying using technology. It negatively impacts victims' feelings and well-being. While anyone can bully or be bullied, bullies often do it to feel powerful or cause harm, and targets are sometimes singled out for perceived differences or weaknesses. Schools and parents should educate youth about consequences, monitor technology use, and empower victims to get help and stand up to bullying. Comprehensive anti-bullying programs aim to change social norms, prevent future incidents, and discourage bullying behaviors.

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    BULLYING

    By Cathlyn de Dios and Mary Yochabel Franco


    Bullying Definition
    Behavior that is intentional,
    hurtful and repeated by one or
    more persons.
    Bullied students are teased,
    harassed, and assaulted verbally or
    physically.
    Did you know?
    The word Bully use to
    mean the total opposite of
    what it means now.

    Five hundred years ago, it


    meant friend, family
    member or sweetheart.
    Two Types of Bullying

    Direct

    Indirect
    Direct
    Physical hitting, kicking,
    pushing, stealing, hiding or
    ruining someones things.
    Making someone do
    something they dont want
    to do.
    Verbal name calling,
    teasing, insulting, threats.
    Indirect
    Relationship Bullying
    gossiping, spreading
    rumors and lies about
    someone.
    Making someone feel
    left out or rejected.
    Bullying can be...
    One person making fun of
    another.
    One person trying to beat
    up another.
    A group of people ganging
    up against others.
    How does it make you feel?

    Depressed
    Alone Hurt

    Low Self-Esteem
    Anxiety Scared
    Does it have to be a part of
    growing up?

    No
    Each and every person has the right to
    feel safe in school and in life.
    Who is a Bully?
    Characteristics of a
    Bully
    Excited by their bullying behavior
    Enjoy feelings of power and control
    Enjoy causing pain
    Can be a below average, average or
    above average student
    Lack compassion and empathy for
    their targets
    Can be all shapes and sizes
    Who is a Target?
    Reasons
    Doesnt fit in
    Physically weak
    Minority
    Facial appearance
    Clothing
    Emotional
    Overweight
    Good grades
    Reasons
    If you usually are alone and don't
    have many friends.

    If you don't have a lot of confidence


    and don't stand up for yourself.
    How to Deal with Bullying!!
    Ways to avoid future
    bullying
    Dont bring expensive things or money to
    school
    Hang out with friends
    Avoid unsupervised areas
    Sit near the bus driver on the bus or walk with
    a teacher to class
    Dont walk alone and avoid places where
    bullying occurs
    Get funny
    Dont act scared
    No one can make you feel inferior without your
    consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
    ANOTHER TYPE OF BULLYING
    CYBER BULLYING IS
    Being cruel to others by sending or
    posting harmful
    material using technological means;
    an individual or group that uses
    information and communication involving
    electronic technologies to facilitate
    deliberate and repeated harassment or
    threat to an individual or group.

    Also known as:


    Electronic Bullying &
    Online Social Cruelty
    CYBER BULLIES TECHNOLOGY

    E-mail
    Cell phones
    Pager text messages
    Instant messaging
    Defamatory personal web sites
    Defamatory online personal polling web sites
    Chat rooms
    DIFFERENCES
    CYBERBULLYING
    BULLYING
    ANONYMOUS
    DIRECT
    Occurs off
    Occurs on
    school property
    school property
    Good relationships with
    Poor relationships teachers
    with teachers
    Fear loss of technology
    Fear retribution privileges
    Physical: Hitting, Punching &
    Shoving
    Verbal: Teasing, Name calling & Further under the radar than
    Gossip bullying
    Nonverbal: Use of gestures &
    Exclusion Emotional reactions cannot
    be determined
    CYBER BULLY CATEGORIES
    Inadvertent Power-Hungry
    Role-play Want reaction
    Responding Controlling with fear
    May not realize its cyber Revenge of the
    bullying Nerds
    Vengeful Angel (Subset of Power-Hungry)
    Righting wrongs Often Victims of school-yard
    Protecting themselves bullies
    Throw cyber-weight around
    Mean Girls Not school-yard bullies like
    Bored; Entertainment
    Power-Hungry & Mean Girls
    Ego based; promote own
    social status
    Often do in a group
    Intimidate on and off line
    Need others to bully; if
    isolated, stop
    CYBER BULLYING TYPES
    Flaming: Online fights using electronic messages
    with angry and vulgar language

    Harassment: Repeatedly sending offensive,


    rude, and insulting messages

    Cyber stalking: Repeatedly sending messages


    that include threats of harm or are highly
    intimidating. Engaging in other on-line activities
    that make a person afraid for his or her own safety

    Denigration: Dissing someone online. Sending


    or posting cruel gossip or rumors about a person to
    damage his or her reputation or friendships
    CYBER BULLYING TYPES
    Impersonation: Pretending to be someone else and
    sending or posting material online that makes that person
    look bad, gets that person in trouble or danger, or damages
    that persons reputation or friendships

    Outing and Trickery: Sharing someones secret or


    embarrassing information online. Tricking someone into
    revealing secrets or embarrassing information which is then
    shared online

    Exclusion: Intentionally excluding someone from an on-


    line group, like a buddy list
    {Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D., Director of the Center for Safe and Responsible
    Internet Use}
    CYBER BULLYING PREVALENCE
    Cyber bullying typically starts at about
    9 years of age and usually ends after 14
    years of age; after 14, it becomes cyber
    or sexual harassment due to nature of
    acts and age of actors {Aftab}

    Affects 65-85% of kids in the core


    group directly or indirectly through
    close friends (Aftab)
    CYBER BULLYING
    PREVALENCE
    Aftabs statistics:
    90% of middle school students they polled had their feelings
    hurt online
    65% of their students between 8-14 have been involved
    directly or indirectly in a cyber bullying incident as the cyber
    bully, victim or friend
    50% had seen or heard of a website bashing of another student
    75% had visited a website bashing
    40% had their password stolen and changed by a bully
    (locking them out of their own account) or sent
    communications posing as them
    Problems in studies: not assessing the real thing
    i.e. Only 15% of parent polled knew what cyber bullying was
    CYBER BULLYING PREVALENCE
    In the 2003-04 school year, i-SAFE America surveyed students
    from across the country on a new topic: Cyber Bullying

    It is a topic that not many adults were talking about but one that is
    all too familiar with students.

    42% of kids have been bullied while online. 1 in 4 have had it happen
    more than once.

    35% of kids have been threatened online. Nearly 1 in 5 have had it


    happen more than once.

    21% of kids have received mean or threatening e-mail or other


    messages.

    58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them
    online. More than 4 out of 10 say it has happened more than once.

    53% of kids admit having said something mean or hurtful to another


    person online. More than 1 in 3 have done it more than once.

    58% have not told their parents or an adult about something mean or
    hurtful that happened to them online.
    Based on 2004 i-SAFE survey of 1,500 students grades 4-8 http://www.isafe.org
    CYBER BULLYING
    LEGAL ISSUES
    Who May Be Involved: School Limits:
    Schools have policies against bullying
    School Counselor
    Civil Law Limits:
    Principal Cyber bullying may also meet
    standards for institutional torts
    Resource Officer (wrongdoings)
    Police
    Defamation
    Attorney (School or Private)
    Material that Constitutes an
    Superintendent Invasion of Privacy
    (1st Amendment)

    Internet Service Provider


    Intentional Infliction of
    Emotional Distress
    CYBER BULLYING LEGAL
    ISSUES

    Criminal Law Limits


    The following kinds of speech can lead to arrest &
    prosecution:
    Making threats of violence to people or their
    property
    Engaging in coercion
    Making obscene or harassing phone calls
    Harassment or stalking
    Hate or bias crimes
    Creating or sending sexually explicit images of teens
    Sexual exploitation
    Taking a photo of someone in place where privacy
    expected
    General (Willard, 2005)
    CURRENT CYBER BULLYING
    PROGRAMS & RESPONSES

    What Everyone Needs to Know About


    Cyber bullying (Aftab)

    Education of Children:
    All actions have consequences
    Cyber bullying hurts
    They are just being used and manipulated by cyber bully
    Cyber bully and accomplices often become the target of
    cyber bullying themselves
    Care about others and stand up for whats right
    CURRENT CYBER BULLYING
    PROGRAMS & RESPONSES
    Comprehensive Plan (Willard, 2005)
    Schools
    Policies concerning misuse of technology
    Evaluate how staff is and can more effectively
    monitor Internet use
    Parents
    Discuss cyber bullying
    Supervise and increase effective monitoring of
    Internet use
    Since more adults supervise, more children will hide
    activities, strategies needed to change social norms
    in these on-line works, empower the victim with
    knowledge how to prevent & respond, & to
    discourage bullies from engaging in such activities
    CURRENT CYBER BULLYING
    PROGRAMS & RESPONSES
    Schools should:
    Focus on values of kindness
    and respectful human
    relations
    Enhancement of empathic
    awareness
    Develop effective problem
    solving skills
    Empowerment of bystanders

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